Posts by Rich Lock
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nukes
..is an interesting analogy. In the 1950's the long-term effects of exposure to even small doses of radiation were not well understood, and nuclear power was lauded as The Technology That Would Save Mankind.
All sorts of uses were proposed, or even put into practice, from using atom bombs to terraform the Great Barrier Reef, to using x-rays in shoe shops so that you coud see how the shoes fitted your feet (this one was an actuality).
Now we are a little older and wiser, we try to keep the does of hard radiaiton we receive to a minium for all sorts of good reasons. But we didn't really have a good understanding of the potential risks at the time. And in quite a few cases, we're still dealing with the consequences and, if you'll excuse the intended pun, the fall-out.
So you'll excuse me if I'm a bit dubious about GE. Yet to be convinced, shall we say.
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Ben, I'd be interested on your take on the WoW 'corrupted blood' virus.
A self-replicating virus that managed to escape the lab and spread in a way that it's creators never intended it to...
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If laughing cures cancer, then reading some of those links has probably kept me safe for the next decade or two.
Any word on whether at or with is more effective? Because if it's at then I believe I've just found the secret to immortality.
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Most homoerotic films of recent memory:
Top Gun, by a country mile.
The beach volleyball! The towels! The simmering locker room tension! The misquoted dialogue ("You can ride my tail anytime, Iceman")!
Uh, sorry for the threadjack. I'm in a flat spin, heading out to sea.
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PEEDA sounds even worse than PEDA.
As long as no-one finds a file, I'll be happy.
Perhaps the reason for the lack of reporting at The Herald is because they're all PEDA-philes.
Coat, getting.
EDIT: Although, to be fair, Tapu Misa gives a summary of the issues a reasonable airing
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Nope. Loved Strange Days, me.
Colour me mildly surprised.
WRT to Bigelow's films, I remember reading an article somewhere that outlined how 'point break' was, for the writer, their first realisation that films could be made by women, for (to an extent) women.
Specifically, they referred to the scene at the beginning where Keanu rolls around in the rain and mud in a tight t-shirt, the camera lovingly caressing his every contour in the slowest of slo-mo.
Okay, it was on the girlwithaonetrackmind blog. Which I only visited to see what all the fuss was about, and not for vicarious pervy thrills. Yes, really.
So make of that what you will.
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Strange Days was a pretty shining example of feminist cinema I thought.
Ah! Now you are clearly being sarcastic! Right....?
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haven't seen it, don't intend to, because I'm not interested in spending $40 on babysitting in order to see it.
I am sure a truly pro-feminist husband would put the kids to bed while you went out and enjoyed this epic on your own :-)
Well, that's what I did. What do I win?
I'll stay out of the rest of the debate for fear of, um, man-splaining ("what you feminist women should do is....")
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I fantasize about the day we all live in a flat, bike-friendly, combustion-engine-rejecting utopia, where it never rains till after sundown, and we all ride everywhere at a leisurely pace on beautifully designed paths, wearing our prettiest clothes at all times.
It would cost quite a lot to relocate the entire readership of PAS to Amsterdam, though.
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We need a PSA equivalent of Godwin's law to describe the point at which all PSA threads become copyright threads.
As I understand it, one of the objections to GE/GM of crops is that we are potentially limiting the full spectrum of variety that nature, uh...naturally provides. And that could be dangerous for things like immunity, etc.
On that basis, the danger is clearly very, very real. Just talking about it has reduced PAS from a lush garden of lively, varied discussion, to a bland, tasteless, single-variety death-spiral.
Somebody should be thinking of the children.